Topic “Issue 12: Transit”

Bobby Lee Can't Get Into Le Privé

AMONG STAND-UP COMICS, Bobby Lee is known for being off his rocker. On- and off-stage, he gets naked on command, brushes his pubic hair and crosses his eyes—all at the same time. But his lack of seriousness shows a serious dedication to kicking...

By: Ali Wong | Posted: Fri, May 4th- 11:54am | Under: ali wong, bobby lee, Comedy, TV, Front of the Book, Issue 12: Transit, Performing Arts

Interrogasian, issue 12

Dear InterrogAsian,

I'm really into hands and Asian men have some of the most slender, feminine hands I've seen. So is there an explanation for the long pinky nail I sometimes see on Asian men's mitts?

-Finger Nut

By: Interrogasian | Posted: Fri, Jun 4th- 1:39am | Under: Front of the Book, Issue 12: Transit, Interrogasian

It's a Bird, It's a Plane... It's a Hindu Goddess?

TARA MEHTA is just an ordinary South Asian woman in the ancient yet modern city of Sitapur. Little does she know that she is actually the human host of Devi, a female warrior-goddess, who is called to life to fight the Dark God Bala. When Tara...

By: Ching-In Chen | Posted: Fri, Jun 4th- 1:36am | Under: Books Section, Issue 12: Transit

Top Three

AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD

By Annie Dillard (Harper)

Nowadays it's unusual to read a memoir of a happy childhood, and there are passages in here that I find quietly hilarious, but those aren't what makes this such a...

By: Neela Banerjee | Posted: Fri, Jun 4th- 1:48am | Under: Books Section, Issue 12: Transit

Takeout

KEEP YOUR PANTS ON

Cassette Belt Buckles

By: Sita Kuratomi B... | Posted: Fri, Jun 4th- 1:44am | Under: Issue 12: Transit, Takeout

Swordbird

Nancy Yi Fan (HarperCollins)

By: Mimi Lok | Posted: Fri, Jun 4th- 1:32am | Under: Books Section, Issue 12: Transit

Homelands

Edited By Patricia Justine Tumang and Jenesha de Rivera (Seal Press)

By: Hyphen | Posted: Fri, Jun 4th- 1:32am | Under: Books Section, Issue 12: Transit

Off the Books

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (Harvard University Press)

By: Neela Banerjee | Posted: Fri, Jun 4th- 1:49am | Under: Books Section, Issue 12: Transit

Voxtrot

www.voxtrot.net

By: Christine | Posted: Fri, Jun 4th- 1:47am | Under: Issue 12: Transit, Music

Misha

(Tomlab)

www.myspace.com/mishatheband

By: Christine | Posted: Fri, Jun 4th- 1:45am | Under: Issue 12: Transit, Music

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